Regional publisher DC Thomson has announced plans to make up to 15 newspaper journalists redundant and close two magazine titles.

An announcement was made to staff at across the company’s newspaper teams on Wednesday, telling them 15 editorial posts were under threat.

DC Thomson, which publishes Dundee-based dailies The Courier and Evening Telegraph, along with The Sunday Post and The Weekly News, said the proposals were to ‘achieve a more sustainable balance between production and content’.

The company also says it will close titles I’m Pregnant and Goodie Bag Mag but it hopes to redeploy the staff working on the magazines to other roles in the company’s consumer entertainment business unit.

A statement from the publisher said it planned to reduce its newspaper editorial team by 10 jobs in Glasgow, four in Dundee and one in London but it aimed to minimise the number of redundancies.

Linda Holden, head of group HR, said: “We appreciate that these are difficult circumstances but we have assured all staff that we will seek to minimise redundancy by managing vacancies, staff turnover, and through redeployment wherever possible.

“Those at risk will be given priority when applying for internal vacancies.”

Company chairman Andrew Thomson told journalists one new role was being created in Edinburgh which the company hopes will be filled by redeploying an affected member of staff.

The move comes just a day after the company announced that The Sunday Post’s Glasgow deputy editor Colin Grant would leave in June after helping editor Donald Martin ‘modernise’ the paper.